L. Hill, E. Badu, Marleys & Others Performing At Bob Marley Festival
MIAMI, Fl. (Yahoo) - Lauryn Hill, DMX, Erykah Badu, Mr. Cheeks, and Foxy Brown are among the performers on the bill for the ninth annual Bob Marley Caribbean Festival in Miami on Saturday (February 9). The day-long festival will also feature performances by Bob's sons Damian, Stephen, and Julian, as ...
| Ja Rule & Vin Diesel goes to Hollywood?
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, and now Ja Rule and Vin Diesel? Last week in Los Angeles on the set of his Murder Inc. compatriot Ashanti's "Foolish" video, the Queens rapper said he and Diesel are hoping to be Hollywood's next dynamic duo. They ...
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Bubba Sparxxx: A Proud Southerner
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - It seems that the world of rap has mostly been about the East coast and West coast, but more and more music listeners are starting to pay attention to other scenes. So we thought we�d take you down south and check out what all the fuss is about. Bubba Sparxxx who hails from ...
| Nelly Shoots Hoops
MISSOURI (Top40 Charts) - Yesterday in Missouri, Nelly and his St. Lunatics agreed to play basketball with the students of a U.S. High School if they improve their school record. The group made the announcement while in Jefferson City, where they were being honoured by Governor Bob Holden for their ...
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Brandy Married A Producer Last Year
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Singer-actress Brandy has revealed that she married producer-songwriter Robert Smith last year. Brandy said in a statement, "I've fallen in love with a very warm, gentle, understanding, and focused person. This summer we married quietly. A new experience, a new day for me." ...
| P. Diddy And J-Lo Together Again
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - P. Diddy is back with old flame J. Lo, not in real life, but on CD. Diddy is back with his former flame, J. Lo. Well, sort of. The Bad Boy produced a track for Jennifer's new �J to tha L-O!--The Remixes� and even contributes some Bad Boy vocals to the track. One of Puffy's ...
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Silkk The Shocker Enjoys The Good Life
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Like his brothers Master P and C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker was born and raised in New Orleans. He began rapping as a teenager, joining a number of gangsta crews including the Down South Hustlers. His success on No Limit Records has given him a life quite different from the ...
| Snoop Dogg, Lil' Kim, & Erick Sermon Turn Up On 'RL:ements'
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - R.L. of Next is tentatively scheduled to release his long-awaited solo debut, RL:ements, on April 23. The first single from the set is the Jermaine Dupri-produced "Got Me A Model" featuring Erick Sermon. Lil' Kim and Snoop Dogg also turn up on the album's song "Do U Wanna Roll." ...
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Eminem's 'The Eminem Show' Eyeing Late April Release
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Eminem is currently positioning himself for another year in the headlines as 2002 will see the release of the rapper's new album and his first feature film. Eminem's follow-up to 2000's massively successful (and controversial) The Marshall Mathers LP will be titled The Eminem ...
| Wu-Tang Clan Back On The Road!
NEW YORK (Loud Records) - The Wu-Tang Clan kicked off a tour last night (February 3) in New Orleans, Louisiana. The group is touring in support of its latest gold-certified release, Iron Flag, which is presently Number 74 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Wu-Tang Clan are going on their first official ...
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Master P Thanks The Man
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Master P didn�t come from traditional rap cities like New York or L.A. he came from New Orleans. He grew up in a very tough area of that city, a city that made him want to better himself and get out. And he did, creating a hip-hop empire out of his independent label called ...
| Destiny Of A Child's Father?
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Destiny's Child manager and father of Beyonce Knowles, Matthew Knowles, is facing a lawsuit after supposedly spending $45 million of the group's profits on sex and drugs. According to the family of Andretta Tillman, who co-managed Destiny's Child until she died five years ago, ...
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Macy Gray 'Stumbles' In L.A. Club Show
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - If Macy Gray's show Wednesday (Jan. 30) night at the Knitting Factory in L.A. was a movie, it would be John Travolta's Battlefield Earth: a much-hyped event, featuring a fading marquee-level star trying to regain his (presumably deserved) position atop the pop-culture throne, ...
| Kelly Price wants to Loose Weight
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Soul siren Kelly Price credits changing her attitude about food with helping her shed weight for her new svelte look. The singer, who is scheduled to release her third album, Priceless, on June 4, said that her weight loss program consisted of a mixture of everything she "heard, ...
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Michelle Williams Solo Release, due April 2
NEW YORK (Yahoo) - Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams is scheduled to be the first member of the superstar girl group to release a solo album. Her album, tentatively titled From My Heart To Yours and due April 2, is expected to include a new version of the "Gospel Medley" which appears on Destiny's ...
| Sisqo Suffering as M. Jackson?
NEW YORK (NY Daily News) - R&B singer and former Dru Hill frontman Sisqo might be suffering from vitiligo, the same skin disease that has plagued pop superstar Michael Jackson. Sisqo has been wearing white protective gloves while making the promotional rounds for his new movie Snow Dogs, which also ...
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Brandy Takes Control
LONDON, UK (Radio 1) - Pop songstress Brandy recently talked about her eating disorder in an interview with BBC's Radio 1. "I wasn't taking care of myself and that's my fault," she says. "But I can talk about it freely because now I'm healthy." Brandy, whose latest single, "What About Us?" is out now, ...
| Urban Cowboys
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Jay-Z, P. Diddy and R. Kelly will be appearing at New York's Urban Beat 2, organized by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. The Wu-Tang Clan headlined the first Urban Beat event in 1995, which helped raise money and awareness for HIV prevention among youth. At a press conference ...
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Mystikal Helps The New York Knicks Get On Track
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Mystikal is likely somewhat disappointed with the sluggish performance of his latest release, Tarantula, which has sold only 365,000 copies since its release in early December. The album is the follow-up to the rapper's double-platinum 2000 set, Let's Get Ready. However, Mystikal ...
| Mary J. Blige Wants Her Song Pulled From Nas's 'Stillmatic'
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige has requested that the song "Braveheart Party," her collaboration with Nas and the Bravehearts, be removed from Nas's latest platinum-certified set, Stillmatic. For reasons described as "personal," Blige asked that the Swizz Beatz-produced song ...
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